Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s2.t1.3

v1.c7.s2.t1.3

The discovery of Buddha’s birth-site owes much to travel descriptions of Faxian and Xuanzang. Following the leads provided by both the Chinese travellers and the discovery of an Asokan Pillar at Rummindei by the Nepali archaeologist Khadga Samsher Rana in 1896, several archaeological excavations, the latest of which was conducted recently between 1990s and 2000s jointly by Nepalese and Japanese archaeologists, claim to have found the exact location of Siddharth Gautam’s birth.